Elsa mantua inspiration-2

I’m still working through my files, so here is another of my favourite Mantua. A deep blue silk covered in silver embroidery. Right now I don’t have access to the printed materials so I’m mostly inspired by the over all effect, and as my lace has a very uneven but scalloped hem I’m using this…

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Elsa inspired mantua

Finally, I’ve started to get back to projects. I really need something with no rules, and makes use of two very pretty but modern fabrics, a shot blue taffeta and a heavy fully sequined lace. It was very hard to decide between my two designs. My few rules are it does stick to historic cut,…

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elsa cape dye success!

ELSA CAPE DYE SUCCESS! by admin, January 30, 2015   Confession, the old colour looked way too deep in shadow so I removed the colour. But the fabric went a blotchy silver with a few blue patches. So to the shame pile it went. I finally used a tiny tiny tiny amount of turquoise iDye…

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elsa :)

ELSA 🙂 by admin, January 5, 2015 Cape will be replaced, the shirt screen printed (sequins rat up the plait!!!!) And I am kicking myself I didn’t put horsehair braid along the top edge like I wanted. The colours are fairly true though 🙂 My dress is baby blue in one direction, turquoise in another and the…

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ELSA SHIRT SEQUINS

ELSA SHIRT SEQUINS by admin, January 2, 2015   Off centre but this was the first pass. Tomorrow is when I hope to sew like the wind 🙂 I’ve been distracting meself as I am worried about it all. So I’ll pin the zip in so tomorrow can be all machine and a little handsewing.

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